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FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CATALOGUE 

OF 

OFFICERS AND PUPILS 

OF 

Greensboro Female College 

GREENSBORO, N.C., 

1897-98 

AND 

ANNOUNCEMENT 

For 1898-99. 

GREENSBORO N.C. 

JOS. J. STONE BOOK AND JOB PRINTER 

1898

COLLEGE CALENDAR, 

1898-99

CALENDAR FOR 1898-99 

September 5 Monday 

September 6-Tuesday 

September 7-Wednesday 

1898 

Entrance 

Examinations. 

September 7 Wednesday 8:40 o'clock A.M. Fall Term 

begins 

September 9 Friday 9 o'clock A. 31.-Recitations begin 

November 24 Thursday Thanksgiving Day. 

December 7 -Tuesday, 9 o'clock A.M. Fall Examinations 

begin. 

December 10-Saturday, 4 o'clock P.M. Fall Examinations 

end. 

December 25-Sunday-Christmas Day. 

1899 

January 10-Tuesday. 4 o'clock P.M. Fall Term ends. 

January 11-Wednesday, 8:40 o'clock A.M. Spring Term 

begins. 

February 22 Wednesday Washington's Birthday. 

March 7 Tuesday 9 o'clock A.M. Intermediate Examinations 

begin. 

March 11--Saturday. 4 o'clock P.M. Intermediate Examinations 

end. 

May 13 Saturday 4 o'clock P.M. Graduating Theses 

due. 

May 23 Tuesday 9 o'clock A.M. Final Examinations 

begin. 

May 27 Saturday 4 o'clock P.M. Final Examinations 

end. 

May 30-Tuesday 

Commencement Exercises. 

May 31-Wednesday

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

JULIAN S. CARR, President 

J. A. ODELL Sec. and Treas. 

W. H. BRANSON, 

J. M. ODELL, 

W. R. ODELL O. W. CARR. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

J. A. ODELL, President O. W. CARR, Secretary 

W. R. ODELL 

NOTE Mr. John H. Ferree, a Director, died March 1 

1898. This catalogue went to press before his successor 

was elected.

GREENSRORO FEMALE COLLEGE. 5 

FACULTY AND OFFICERS 

FOR THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1897-98.* 

DRED PEACOCK, 

President. 

MRS. Z. A. LONG, 

Lady Principal. 

CHARLES L. RAPER, A. B., 

Latin and Science. 

MISS LILLIAN LONG, 

History. 

MISS CLARA PURYEAR, A, B., A. M 

English Language and Literature. 

MISS MINNIE H. MOORE, 

Mathematics. 

MISS ANNIE M. PAGE. 

French and German. 

MISS AVA L. FLEMING, 

Latin and English. 

J. W. PARKER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR 

*Faculty 1898-99, see supplement. 

Piano and Voice Culture. 

MISS CLARA B. ORR, 

Piano and Voice Culture.

6 GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE 

FACULTY AND 0FFlCERS Continued 

MISS ANNE M. SNEED, 

Piano. 

MISS ALTA B. COZART, A. B., 

Elocution 

MISS CATHARINE F. HEISKELL, 

Drawing and Painting. 

MISS BETTIE ARMFIELD, 

Business Department. 

REV. J. H. WEAVER D. D., 

Chaplain. 

MISS MAIE CARR 

Librarian. 

MISS FANNIE ARMFIELD, 

Supervisor of Health. 

MRS. L. A. REES, 

Matron. 

MR. J. A. ODELL, 

Treasurer. 

MISS LEILA GILCHRIST McGlRT, 

Assistant Treasurer and Private Secretary to the President

GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE. 7 

STUDENTS ENROLLED 1897-98. 

Balsley, Pearl M. 

Benson, Margaret 

Black Mary O. 

Capel, Blanche 

Carraway Daisy.. 

England, Maude 

Hamlin, Nora 

Jenkins, Frederika P. 

LeGrand, Pattie. 

Maultsby, Annie S 

Webb Jennie Clegg 

GRADUATE STUDENTS. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

Irregular did not complete all the studies in this class. 

Best, Minnie A. 

Burton, Lillian Grizzelle 

Carr Sallie 

Chatham, Myrtle E.. 

Cole Mary Anna. 

Fearrington Sallie Lou. 

Geddie, Minnie Clyde 

Gibson Mary Prince 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

.North Carolina

8 GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE. 

Kerr, Mary Ida.. 

"Leach, Nannie E.. 

McRackan May.. 

Rowe Eugenia A. 

Weathersbee, Bertha S.. 

Wynne, Lizzie L.. 

Irregular did not complete all the studies in this class. 

SOPHOMORE CLASS. 

.North Carolina. 

Adams, Margaret North Carolina 

Alexander, Mine., 

"Carter. Sallie C. 

Creech Rosa Harper.. 

"Fields, Cora Agnes.. 

Gibson, Lura 

Haskins Mary Etta. 

McArthur, Catharine L.. 

Payne Hattie W. 

*Roberts, Jimmie Maude.. 

Stratford, Isla Jane.. 

Tipton Rachael L.. 

"Walker, Della.. 

Wagg, Gertrude.. 

"Westbrook, Julia Estelle. 

"Westbrook, Virginia 

.Tennessee 

Irregular did not complete all the studies in this class.


FRESHMAN CLASS. 

Anderson, Ida M.. .North Carolina 

Armfield, Myrtle.. 

Armfield, Wilma 

Bevill, Dora McAdoo. 

Brent, Jennie B 

Burns, Bettie E 

Campen, Bertha 

Cole, Lucy Mayfield 

Davis, Mattie Myra 

Davis, May 

Hassell, Virginia 

Heitman, Mabel Lee.. 

Houston, Lola C. 

Jenkins, Bertha.. 

Johnson, Lillie V 

Knight, Josephine T. 

Lambeth, Simmons 

Long, Rosa Lena 

Lyon, Mattie R 

McCabe, May Etta.. .Virginia 

Mims, Ray Ellen.. .Tennessee 

Moore, Lucy E.. South Carolina 

Moore, Marion M 

Moore, Mazie Edna. .North Carolina 

Nelson, Virginia S 

Parham, Emma Blanche.. 

Parrish. Eunice. 

Perry, Mollie Estelle. 

Poindexter, Katherine. 

"Rowe, Laura A 

Stanback, Eleanor 

Scott, Jessie. 

Styers, Beatrice Z.. 

Thompson, Mary 

Vestal, Lillian Estelle.


West, Alice. .North Carolina 

West, Lelia 

Westbrook, Hettie G 

Wharton, Hattie E... 

Whitsett, Nell. Georgia 

Williams, Mary A. .North Carolina 

Did not finish the studies of this class. 

SPECIAL STUDENTS. 

Bell, Jessie. .North Carolina 

Blalock, Ethel E 

Bowden, Lucy C.. 

Brewer, Annie May.. .South Carolina 

Brodrick, Mary Lucretia,. .North Carolina 

Brown, Lillian.. 

L . 

Carr, Mrs. W. C 

Coble, Clare D.. 

Coble, Donna F 

Davis, Mamie Ethel 

Dawson, Dora E.. 

Dick, Lizzie Leigh. 

Diffie, Ethel Maie, 

Dowd, Mary Rebecca.. 

Ford, Lou Reynolds.. 

Fowler, Annie D 

Gardner, Clara Ernestine. 

Gibson, Etta F. 

Gorrell, Minnie H. 

Gray, Mabelle 

Graves, Sallie S. 

Grissom, Bessie 

Gunn, Blanche H 

Gwinn, Millie 

Hancock, Mary 

Harris, Fannie N.


Harper, Mary Rebecca. .North Carolina 

Hendren, Carrie M 

Hinson, Ida 

Horry, Mary.. 

Hoyle, Mary Caldwell 

Hyatt Grace L. 

King, Hattie M.. 

Makepeace, Alice. 

McDaniel, Ella .South Carolina 

McMasters Be 

Merrimon Nellie. 

.North Carolina 

Miller, Charlotte E. 

Moore Kathleen M.. 

Page, Lula Clark.. 

Parham, Mattie 

Raper, Belle Flora.. 

Simmonds Lacy 

Smith, Nellie Pearl 

Stewart, Clara.. 

Troy, Nina W.. 

Vestal, Fannie M 

Walker, Pattie. 

Weatherly, Lillian. 

Westbrook Elizabeth A. 

.North Carolina


CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO STUDIES. 

PUPILS IN LATIN. 

Armfield, Myrtle Lambeth, Simmons 

Best, Minnie Leach, Nannie 

Blalock, Ethel LeGrand, Pattie 

Brent, Jennie B. LeGrand, Mary 

Burton, Grizelle Long, Lena 

Campen, Bertha Maultsby, Annie 

Capel, Blanche Martin, Clara 

Carter; Sallie McCabe, May 

Chatham, Myrtle McArthur, Catharine 

Cole, Elma Moore, Mazie 

Cole, Mayfield Parrish, Eunice 

Cole, Mary Payne, Hattie 

Currie, Manie Perry, Estelle 

Davis, Myra Poindexter, Kate 

Davis, May Rowe, Eugenia 

Dawson, Dora Rowe, Laura 

England, Maude Stratford, Isla 

Evans, Eva Styers, Beatrice 

Fearrington, Sallie Thompson, Mary 

Fields, Cora Tipton, Rachael 

Geddie, Minnie Vestal, Fannie 

Gibson, Lura Vestal, Estelle 

Gibson, Mary Wagg, Gertrude 

Groome, Mary Weathersbee, Bertha 

Hadley, Lizzie Webb, Jennie 

Harris, Fannie West, Lelia 

Hamer, Marie West Alice 

Haskins, Mary Etta Westbrook, Estelle 

Hassell, Dare Westbrook, Hettie


Heitman, Eva Westbrook, Virginia 

Heitman, Mabel Wharton, Hattie 

Henderson, Anna Whitsett, Nell 

Jenkins, Frederika Williams, Mary 

Johnston, Lillie Williams, Eva 

Kerr, Ida Wynne, Lizzie 

King, Hattie 

PUPILS IN FRENCH AND GERMAN. 

Alexander, Mina Latham, Addie 

Armfield, Wilma Lyon, Mattie 

Armfield, Bettie Miller. Bessie 

Bevill, Dora Miller, Charlotte 

Creech, Rosa Moore, Minnie 

Dick. Lizzie Leigh Roberts, Jimmie 

Dowd, Mamie Scott, Jessie 

Groome, Mary Walker, Della 

Heitman, Eva Williams, Eva 

Houston, Lola 

MUSIC STUDENTS. 

PIANO. 

Adams, Maggie Horry, Mary 

Armfield, Myrtle Jenkins, Frederika 

Bell, Jessie Kerr, Ida 

Blalock, Ethel Lambeth. Simmons 

Black, Mary O. Latham, Addie 

Bowden, Lucy Leach, Nannie 

Brewer, Annie LeGrand, Pattie 

Brodrick, Mary Lou Lyon, Mattie


Carr, Mrs. W. C. Martin Clara 

Campen, Bertha McDaniel, Ella 

Carr, Sallie Miller, Bessie 

Chatham, Myrtle Moore, Marion 

Cole, Mary Moore. Kathleen 

Cole, Mayfield Moore, Mazie 

Cole, Elma Mock, Essie 

Creech, Rosa Muse, Myrtle 

Davis, Ethel Nelson, Virginia 

England, Maude Parham, Blanche 

Evans, Eva Perry, Estelle 

Fields, Cora Roberts, Jimmie 

Ford, Lou Styers, Beatrice 

Gardner, Ernestine Thompson, Mary 

Geddie, Minnie Tipton, Rachael 

Gibson, Lura Troy, Nina 

Gibson, Mary Vestal, Estelle 

Gibson, Etta Wagg, Gertrude 

Gorrell, Minnie Walker, Della 

Gunn, Blanche Walker, Pattie 

Hamer, Marie Weathersbee, Bertha 

Hamlin, Nora Westbrook, Estelle 

Harper, Mary Westbrook, Hettie 

Heitman, Eva Westbrook, Lizzie 

Heitman, Mabel Weatherly, Lillian 

Hendren, Carrie Wharton, Hattie 

Hinson, Ida Whitsett, Nell 

Hoyle, Caldwell Williams, Eva 

Williams, Mary 

VOICE. 

Armfield, Myrtle LeGrand, Mary 

Bell, Jessie Long, Lillian 

Black, Mary O. Martin, Clara 

Brown, Lillian McDaniel, Ella 

Burton, Grizelle McAdoo, Thomas


Carter, Sallie Nelson, Virginia 

Currie, Manie Page, Annie 

Dawson, Dora Roberts, Jimmie 

Evans, Eva Simmonds, Lacy 

Fields, Cora Wagg Gertrude 

Gardner, Ernestine Weathersbee, Bertha 

Gorrell, Minnie Westbrook, Lizzie 

Graves, Sallie Westbrook, Estelle 

Heitman, Eva Wynne, Lizzie 

Houston, Lola 

HARMONY. 

Blalock, Ethel Hendren, Carrie 

Black, Mary O. Hinson, Ida 

Bowden, Lucy Miller, Bessie 

Cole, Elma Moore, Kathleen 

Cole, Mary Troy, Nina 

Davis, Ethel Wagg, Gertrude 

Dowd, Mamie Weathersbee, Bertha 

Gibson, Mary Weatherly, Lillian 

Gunn, Blanche 

VIOLIN. 

Dowd, Mary Wynne, Lizzie 

Miller, Charlotte 

Armfield, Wilma 

Balsley, Pearl 

Blalock, Ethel 

Bowden, Lucy 

Burns, Bettie 

Burton Grizelle 

Brewer, Annie 

Campen, Bertha 

Capel, Blanche 

Carter, Sallie 

PUPILS IN ELOCUTION. 

Heitman, Mabel 

Hinson, Ida 

Houston, Lola 

Hyatt, Grace 

Latham, Addie 

Long, Lena 

Merrimon, Nellie 

McArthur, Catharine 

Mims, Ray 

Moore, Mazie


Creech, Rosa Moore, Marion 

Davis, Ethel Muse, Myrtle 

Davis, Myra Nelson, Virginia 

Dawson, Dora Payne Hattie 

Dick, Lizzie Leigh Poindexter, Kate 

England, Maude Rowe. Laura, 

Fearrington, Sallie Stanback, Eleanor. 

Ford, Lou Reynolds Simmonds, Lacy 

Fowler, Annie Troy, Nina 

Gardner, Ernestine Wagg, Gertrude 

Gibson, Etta Webb, Jennie 

Gray, Mabelle Weathersbee, Bertha 

Grissom, Bessie Westbrook, Estelle 

Groome, Mary Westbrook, Hettie 

Harris, Fannie Westbrook, Lizzie 

Harper, Mary Westbrook, Virginia 

Heitman, Eva Williams, Eva 

CLASSES IN THE ART DEPARTMENT. 

Gibson, Etta 

Harper, Mary 

King, Hattie 

DRAWING 

CRAYON. 


Moore, Lucy 

Roberts, Jimmie 

Coble, Clare Miller, Charlotte 

Gibson, Etta Moore, Lucy 

Harper, Mary Roberts, Jimmie 

King, Hattie


PASTEL. 

Gorrell Minnie Rowe, Eugenia 

Long, Mrs. Z. A. 

Long, Lillian 

Roberts, Jimmie 

OIL PAINTING. 

Coble, Donna King, Hattie 

Diffie Ethel Long, Lillian 

Fearrington, Sallie Long, Lena 

Gray, Mabelle LeGrand, Pattie 

Gibson, Etta Miller, Charlotte 

Gorrell, Minnie Moore, Lucy 

Harper, Mary McCabe, May 

Hadley, Lizzie Parham, Mattie 

Hoyle, Caldwell Walker, Pattie 

Hyatt, Grace Westbrook, Lizzie 

WATER COLORS. 


BUSINESS DEPARTMENT 

CLASS IN STENOGRAPHY. 

Benson, Maggie Makepeace Alice 

Carr, Mrs. W. C. 

Page, Lula C. 

Diffie, Ethel Raper, Belle 

Evans, Eva Stewart, Clara 

Gwinn, Millie Simmonds, Lacy 

Harris, Fannie 

King, Hattie 

Westbrook, Lizzie


CLASS IN TYPEWRITING. 

Benson, Maggie King, Hattie 


Makepence, Alice 

Diffie, Ethel Page, Lula 

Gardner, Ernestine Stewart, Clara 

Gwinn, Millie 

Harris, Fannie 

Simmonds, Lacy 

CLASS IN BOOK-KEEPING. 

Bell, Jessie Makepeace, Alice 

Brewer, Annie McRackan. May 


Page, Lula 

Gibson, Etta Smith, Pearl 

Harris, Fannie Williams, Eva


LITERARY DEPARTMENT. 

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. 

Many applicants for admission into even the 

higher classes have been found deficient in the or- 

dinary preparatory studies. It is not infrequent 

that we find candidates who can stand a fair exami- 

nation on English Literature and Rhetoric, but fail 

on English Grammar and Composition. It is rare 

that we find a student well drilled on the principles 

of English Grammar, English Composition, and 

Arithmetic. These are branches to which we pay 

especial attention, and consequently our require- 

ments with regard to them are very rigid. Our 

work in English Grammar and Composition is given 

the same prominence as to drill-work as Latin, 

French, or German Grammar and Composition. 

The fact that a student has studied the subjects for 

any number of years will not pass her unless she 

gives evidence that she knows them. To this end, 

we require entrance examinations on all subjects 

in all classes. To avoid the necessity of making 

unpleasant distinctions between schools of different 

degrees of thoroughness, we do not admit any stu- 

dent by certificate. If she be properly prepared, 

she will do credit to herself and to her preparatory 

school by standing a good examination. Should 

she be poorly prepared, she ought not to enter any


class that would prove too far advanced for her 

and thereby jeopardize her possibilities of success 

and injure the standing of the College. 

While our requirements for entrance are not ad- 

vanced, we insist on thorough work as far as our 

demands extend. 

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRANCE. 


ENGLISH Written examination on the principles 

of English Grammar. 

MATHEMATICS Written examination on rudimentary 

Arithmetic. 

GEOGRAPHY .-Written examination on first principles 

of the Science, to give evidence of fitness to 

study an advanced text-book. 

SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR AND SENIOR CLASSES. 

Candidates for admission into either the Sopho- 

more, Junior or Senior Class must stand a written 

examination on all the work of the classes below 

the one for which she is a candidate, or on the 

equivalent of such work. For instance, to enter 

the Senior Class, it is not necessary simply to 

stand examination on the studies of the Junior 

Class, but on those of the Sophomore and Fresh- 

men Classes as well. 

The decision of the head of a department as to 

what class an applicant must enter is final, and is 

not subject to appeal to the Faculty.


AS TO CLASSIFICATION. 

Every student who matriculates is placed in some 

class. The classes are known as Freshman Sophomore 

Junior, Senior and Special The studies taken 

as a basis for classification are Mathematics, Eng- 

lish and Latin, French or German, Students who 

have studies in more than one class are “starred” 

in the catalogue as irregular Freshmen, Sophomores 

mores, &c., &c. Special students are those who 

pursue only those branches known as extra or optional 

tional studies. If, in addition to her work in these 

branches, she pursue as many as three Literary 

studies, she will be placed in one of the Literary 

Classes. 

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. 

The Hoard of Directors have decided to require 

every candidate for graduation to complete the 

entire English Course and at least one ancient or 

modern language. Hereafter diplomas will not be 

granted for the completion of the English Course 

alone. This regulation, does not apply to those who en- 

tered College previous to June, 1895 They will receive 

English diplomas according to published announcements 

which appeared previous to their matriculation. 

An average of 70 per cent. must be made on every 

subject, and all students who fail to secure this 

average must review the subject or subjects and 

stand another examination within a month from the

CLASSES. 

Any one of these. 

Freshman Year. 5 5 4 5 5 5 

Sophomore Year 5 5 4 5 5 5 

Junior Year.. 5 3 4 3 3 3 

Senior Year.. 5 3 4 3 3 3 2 

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GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE 23 

COURSE OF STUDY. 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 

In the steadily increasing demand for thorough education 

of woman, it is gratifying to note the stress that is laid on 

the study of English language and literature. That, in 

this line of work, her development has been somewhat slow 

and her advantages limited, are acknowledged facts; but 

these conditions are rapidly disappearing, and it is the 

earnest purpose of this institution to help push forward the 

movement. The day has come when a person’s English is 

taken as the test and measure of his cultivation, and realiz- 

ing this, our schools are giving more time to the study of 

it than heretofore. In this institution every candidate for 

graduation is required to take five full hours’ work in Eng- 

lish per week. She will receive a careful and thorough 

drill in grammar and rhetoric which, in the higher classes. 

will be varied by a thoughtful study and analysis of the 

best English classics, both in prose and poetry. and of se- 

lections from American literature. 

To our mind, the problem in education to-day is, how to 

form in our young people the habit of reading-how to 

develop in them an appreciation of that which is best in 

literature. The only solution, it seems to us, is the syste- 

matic study of choice masterpieces as wholes. The impressions 

made by a complete poem like The Lay of the Last 

Minstrel, Snow-Bound, The Cotter’s Saturday Night or 

the Eve of St. Agnes are far more lasting and beneficial 

than those made by a series of extracts which taken to- 

gether require, perhaps, the same amount of time and 

thought. It is only by studying the entire poem that a 

pupil can grasp the central thought and catch the true 

spirit of the writer. To enable our pupils to do this is our


highest aim and, so far as is practicable, complete poems 

and prose works are used in the course. 

Special attention is given to composition work. and in 

the lower classes much of this is done under the eye of the 

teacher. Our object in this class-room drill as is readily 

been, is to train the pupil to express rapidly her thoughts, 

and thus to acquire ease and accuracy in writing. In this 

drill, the subject usually assigned is one taken from some 

poem or prose work which the class has recently studied. 

In the Junior and Senior classes, original work is required. 

In all the work of this Department there are freely used 

such reference books as Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia 

the Standard Dictionary, Galey’s Classic Myths, Larned’s 

History for Ready Reference and Topical Rending, English 

and American Men of Letters Series, etc. 


FALL TERM English Grammar (text to be selected); 

Exercises in Composition. 

SPRING TERM Lockwood’s Lessons in English; 

Selections from American Literature; Hawthorne’s 

Tanglewood Tales, etc. Exercises in Composition. 


FALL TERM Rhetoric (text to be selected); Irving’s 

Sketch-Book; Longfellow’s Evangeline, and 

Courtship of Miles Standish; Whittier’s Snow- 

Bound and other poems; Lowell’s Vision of Sir 

Launfal; parallel work in biography; Composition 

Work. 

SPRING TERM Rhetoric (text to be selected) 

Meiklejohn’s History of English Literature; Dickens’ 

Christmas Carol and Cricket on the Hearth;


Tennyson’s Enoch Arden and other poems; Scott’s 

Lady of the Lake and Lay of the Last Minstrel; 

Composition Work. 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. From Milton to Tennyson (Syle); 

Pancoast’s Introduction to English Literature; 

Composition Work. 

SPRING TERM.-Pancoast’s Introduction to English 

Literature; Rolfe’s edition of Merchant of 

Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Julius 

Caesar; Composition Work. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. Tennyson’s Arthurian poems; selected 

English Prose Classics; Rolfe’s edition of 

Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing; Theme 

Work. 

SPRING TERM. Rolfe’s edition of Macbeth, King 

Lear, Othello and Henry IV.; Theme Work. 

HISTORY. 

Although much attention has been given to the study of 

History in this school there has not been until recently a sep- 

arate and distinct Department of History. Heretofore the 

course has been completed in the Junior year, but now a 

fourth year is required. The Senior work will be a syste- 

matic study of prominent men and events in North Carolina 

History. 

In all the work of this Department, our main purpose is 

to stimulate the pupil to investigate for herself and to


create in her an insatiable love for the subject. The work 

of the advanced classes is a study of the causes and in- 

fluences of historical movements rather than of the details 

of the movements themselves; the purpose of this being, of 

course, to give the pupil a correct idea of the relation of 

events and of their place in history. 


FALL AND SPRING TERMS. American History 

(Montgomery). 


FALL AND SPRING TERMS. History of England 

(Montgomery). 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL AND SPRING TERMS. General History 

(Myers). 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL AND SPRING TERMS. History of North 

Carolina. 

MATHEMATICS. 

To the average pupil, the study of Mathematics suggests 

long, dull hours of hard work. While it is true that all 

minds are not endowed with a readiness to straighten out a 

tangle of sines and secants, yet however limited the mathe- 

matical talent of a pupil, it is capable of high development. 

If the subject be presented in an attractive manner and the 

mind be gradually led, by systematic study, to grasp the 

subject, then will the science of numbers be no longer the 

obstacle that looms up before the young. 

The purpose of this department is to teach the pupil to


think, and to give that mental training to which the study of 

mathematics is peculiarly adapted. Thoroughness, accu- 

racy and complete mastery of the subject are sought; and 

to this end all tendency to over-tax the pupil either in time 

or in effort is avoided. 

The course is limited, only such branches being taught 

as are deemed sufficient for the practical demands of educa- 

tion for young women. This being the case, every candi- 

date for graduation must complete the entire course, which, 

in the Freshman and Sophomore classes, requires five 

hours drill per week, in the Junior and Senior, three. 


FALL AND SPRING TERMS. Higher Arithmetic 

(text to be selected). 


FALL AND SPRING TERMS. Wentworth’s Elements 

of Algebra, supplemented by Wentworth 

and Hill’s Exercises in Algebra. 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL AND SPRING TERMS. Wentworth’s New 

Plane and Solid Geometry. The exercises in geometry 

include recitations from the text-book, original 

demonstrations of propositions and applications to 

numerical examples. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL AND SPRING TERMS. Wentworth’s Plane 

and Spherical Trigonometry.


NATURAL SCIENCE. 


FIRST SEVEN MONTHS.-Complete Geography 

(Frye). Fours hours per week. 

LAST THREE MONTHS Zoology (Burnet). Four 

hours per week. 

In Geography the text must be mastered. To know this 

subject well is an accomplishment which many do not 

possess. It needs to be studied deeply by mature pupils. 

In Zoology the text must be supplemented by the observa- 

tion of specimens. 


FALL TERM. Physical Geography (Hinman) 

Four hours per week. 

SPRING TERM. Physiology and Hygiene (Hutch- 

Hutchison Four hours per week. 

In both these subjects the work is mainly with the text. 

However, a special point will be made to get each pupil to 

verify by observation. During the Spring Term every 

effort will be made to get pupils deeply interested in hy- 

gienic laws. 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL AND SPRING TERMS.-chemistry Williams’ 

New); Laboratory Manual (Williams). 

per week. 

Four hours 

This work will be as much practical as theoretical. Each 

pupil must perform and write up in the Manual every ex- 

periment. Chemistry can be learned in no other way. The 

laboratory has forty desks equipped alike. Each desk has


a Bunsen burner, a ring-stand, a test-tube holder and test- 

tubes, a pneumatic trough, a pair forceps, a soda bottle, a 

flask (200 cc.), a gramme graduate, a cc. graduate, a funnel, 

two lifting glasses, a mortar and pestle, two evaporating 

dishes, two beakers 50 cc. and 100 cc. four reagent bottles 

filled, a metric ruler, a wire gauze, a blow-pipe, a glass 

stirring rod, a file, a pair of scales with metric weights, a 

hone-spatula. and bottles filled with all chemicals necessary. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FIRST SEVEN MONTHS Principles of Physics 

{Gage). Four hours per week. 

LAST THREE MONTHS Elementary Geology 

(Tarr). Four hours per week. 

In Physics the practical will be combined with the theo- 

retical. Each pupil must have a note-book in which will 

be written up the experiments. All the problems in the 

text will be solved; and others will be given as needed. 

Among the apparatus are a steam engine, a small dynamo. 

with its arc and incandescent systems, a motor, a volt- 

meter, an ampere-meter, a rheostat, a thirty-cell Grove 

battery and an eight-volt Grenet a galvanometer, induction 

tion coils, a telephone, a telegraph instrument, a plate ma- 

chine, a large battery of Leyden jars, magnets, a force 

pump, two air pumps, large vacuum tubes bell jars of all 

sizes, a barometer, thermometers, hydrometers, apparatus 

for taking the pressure of liquids and gases, apparatus for 

measuring the expansion of solids and for illustrating all 

the mechanical laws, reflectors, prisms, lenses, and quite a 

supply of general apparatus, including working tools. 

This laboratory, as well as the chemical, is connected with 

the city water and gas. 

In Geology a great deal of time will be spent in field- 

work. Near the institution can be found several places


that clearly show geological action and formations. This 

field-work will be supplemented by the examination of the 

many specimens in the laboratory. 

LATlN. 

FRESHMAN CLASS, 

FALL TERM. The Beginner’s Latin Book (Collar 

and Daniell). Five hours per week. 

SPRING TERM. THe Beginner’s Latin Book, completed; 

Viri Romae (D’Ooge), Five hours per week, 

In order to make this year’s work more interesting and 

the transition from Latin Grammar to Caesar easier, Viri 

Romae will be required in connection with The Beginner’s 

Book, 


FALL AND SPRING TERMS. Caesar’s Gallic War 

(text to be selected), six books; Latin Grammar 

(Bennett); Latin Composition (Bennett), first twenty-two 

ty-two lessons. Five hours per week. 

Caesar will be translated critically and the Grammar 

used at each recitation. The geography of Gaul must be 

gotten up by each pupil, the classical wall map of Gaul 

being before the class all the time. In Latin Composition 

the references, vocabulary, notes and examples must be 

gotten up well; and all the sentences must be written in a 

special note-book. These note-books are handed in for 

correction. After being corrected, each sentence in the 

note-book must be committed to memory by the pupil.


JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. Cicero’s Conspiracy of Catiline 

(text to be selected), four orations; Latin Grammar; 

Latin Composition (Bennett); History of Rome 

(Creighton). Three hours per week. 

SPRING TERM. Vergil’s Aeneid (text to be se- 

lected), four books; Latin Grammar; Latin Compo- 

sition (Bennett), completed; Roman Mythology. 

Three hours per week. 

In order to get a correct understanding of the orations 

of Cicero the pupil must make a careful study of the history 

of Rome from 100 to 63 B.C. In connection with this will 

be taken a brief review of the whole history. With Vergil 

the geography of the Mediterranean Sea and all points of 

mythology will be looked up. The classical wall maps 

and Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Literature and An- 

antiquities must be consulted. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. Horace Odes (Smith and Green- 

Grensborough four books; Roman Literature (as much as 

in Bender). Three hours per week. 

SPRING TERM. Tacitus the Agricola and Germania 

mania (Hopkins); Roman Constitution (Tighe). 

Three hours per week. 

All points in Horace on the history, life or mythology of 

the Roman people must be carefully looked up. All the 

principal characters in their literature will be considered 

as to their lives, times and works. With Tacitus the pro- 

vincial administration will be studied and with this the 

constitutional history of the city itself.


MODERN LANGUAGES. 

In this Department are taught French and German with- 

out which no young woman should consider her education 

complete. The prominence of these branches and the im- 

portance of a knowledge of them are too well understood 

to make further comment necessary. Four years are neces- 

sary to complete the course in this department. Five hours 

weekly are required in the Freshman and Sophomore 

years, and three each in the Junior and Senior. 

After only a few lessons in Grammar are learned, easy 

reading is commenced. Special attention is given to pro- 

nunciation from the very first, Short dictations-which 

train the ear and call the pupil’s attention to spelling, 

peculiarities of construction, &c., are begun during the 

first year. and are continued throughout the course. In 

reading, the pupils are required to parse and to notice 

carefully the idioms. At the end of the four years, she ha3 

acquired a thorough knowledge of grammar, a fair knowl- 

edge of the history and literature of the country, is able to 

read and translate with ease, can understand the spoken 

language, and can speak it herself with some degree of 

ease, though in large classes, it is impossible to teach one, 

in so limited a time, to be a fluent conversationalist. 

Careful examinations will be given to those wishing to 

enter a class higher than the Freshman, wherein knowledge 

of grammatical rules, ease in translating, facility for 

writing under dictation (graded according to class and 

pronunciation, will be taken into consideration in deter- 

mining class which the pupil will enter. 

FRENCH. 


FALL TERM Keetel’s Elementary Grammar; 

Conversation. 

SPRING TERM. Grammar Super’s Reader.



FALL TERM. Elementary Grammar, finished; 

Super’s Reader, finished. 

SPRING TERM. Keetel’s Complete Grammar; 

L’Abbe Constantin; (Ludovic Halevy). 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. Grammar Le Petit Chose Daudet 

SPRING TERM. Grammar Le Cid (Corneille); 

Hernani (Victor Hugo). 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM L’Ami Fritz; (Erckmann-Chatrian); 

L’Athalie (Racine); La Litterature Literature Francaise Berlitz 

SPRING TERM. Merope (Voltaire); Contes Choisies 

(Daudet); Un Mariage d’Amour (Halevy); Lit- 

Literature Literature Francaise. 

GERMAN. 


FALL TERM.-German Lessons (Collar-Eysenbach); 

Conversation and Dictation. 

SPRING TERM. Grammar (Joynes-Meissner); 

Grimm’s Maerchen; Conversation and Dictation 


FALL TERM. Grammar Wilhelm Tell (Schiller); 

Historische Erzaehlungen; Conversation and Dictation.


SPRING TERM. Grammar Minna Von Barn- 

helm; Die Journalisten; Conversation and Dicta- 

tion. 

JUNIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. Grammar (Whitney); Readings 

from the Lyric Poetry of Goethe and Heine. 

SPRING TERM. Grammar (Whitney). This term 

will be spent in sight readings from different 

authors. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL AND SPRING TERMS.-Grammar (Whitney); 

Faust Part I.; Reading at Sight; Conversation 

and Dictation. 

PHILOSOPHY. 

SENIOR CLASS. 

FALL TERM. Psychology 

per week. 

(Steele). Two hours 

SPRING TERM. Ethics (Steele); Civil Government 

(Finger). Two hours per week. 

The text-book will be but the outline in this Department. 

References will be given very often to other works in the 

library. In Psychology the aim will be to get the pupil to 

have a clear insight into the workings of the mind in its 

intellectual, feeling and willing capacities, and especially 

to see the close relations each to the other. Under Ethics 

the rights and obligations of man will be considered, and 

as they apply to the different institutions of society Civil 

Government, while it does not belong very fully in this 

connection, still includes much of applied Ethics and can 

well be studied here.

GREENSRORO FEMALE COLLEGE. 35 

OPTIONAL STUDIES. 

Music, Drawing, Painting, Ancient and Modern 

Languages, Elocution, Book-keeping, Type-writing 

and Stenography, for which extra charges are 

made, are taught at the option of parent or guar- 

dian, and in such way as to impede as little as pos- 

sible the progress of the pupil in her regular 

studies. No pupil is allowed to commence one of 

these branches, or, having commenced, to discontinue 

it, without the permission of the President, 

given at the request of the parent or guardian. 

SCHOOL OF MUSIC. 

PROFESSOR J. W. PARKER, DIRECTOR. 

The School of Music of Greensboro Female Col- 

lege is under the direction of Prof. J. W. Parker, 

assisted by a corps of excellent teachers, all of 

whom are well qualified for the positions they are 

to fill. 

Prof. J. W. Parker, our Director of Music, was 

born in Ohio and received his musical education 

mainly in Buffalo, N.Y., and in New York City. 

He had the good fortune at one time to become the 

pupil of the renowned Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 

through his teacher, Monsieur Bonjour, who was a


personal friend of the great pianist. Prof. Parker 

studied with a number of eminent teachers and 

pianists in this country, then went to London, 

where he studied teaching methods in the Con- 

servatories of that great city. He also went to 

Italy, where he acquired the voice method of the 

elder Seignor Lamperti, taking private lessons 

under him. Prof. Parker has been in school work 

for the past twenty years-nine years as Director 

of Music in the 0hio Weslyan University of Dela- 

ware, Ohio, and seven years Director in Carleton 

College at Northfield Minn., where he was emi- 

nently successful as a teacher of piano, voice and 

pipe organ. From these institutions he bears the 

finest testimonials. 

He is a devout member of the M. E. Church, 

South, and is a gentleman of unblemished Chris- 

tian character. The College is to be congratulated 

on securing his valuable services as Director of 

Music. Young ladies who desire the very best ad- 

advantages in music will secure them at Greensboro 

Female College. 

In each branch of musical study a systematic 

course will be pursued, the time required for the 

completion of which will depend upon the ability of 

the pupil. 

Diplomas will be given to students who success- 

fully complete the course in piano and harmony, or 

voice and harmony. If still higher and more pro- 

tracted courses are desired, the students may pur- 

sue a graduate course.


INSTRUMENTAL DEPARTMENT 

Prof. Parker teaches the Mason Technics, which 

he acquired from Dr. Mason direct. 

FIRST GRADE.-(Practice two hours per day). 

Kohler’s and Mason’s Methods; Loeschorn, Opus 

181. 

Throughout first-grade students will be required 

to practice daily Technics, Adolph Kullak’s Finger 

Exercises, and Major and Minor Scales. Easy 

pieces from best composers will be given as student 

advances. 

SECOND GRADE Practice two hours per day). 

Klaviertechnik; Loeschorn; Easy and Progressive 

Studies, Opus 176, books 1 and 2; Duvernoy. Primary 

Studies, for Arpeggio work, Opus 50; Koehler 

Progressive Studies, Opus 66, book 1, Loeschorn 

Kunz Cannons. 

Throughout second grade practice daily Major 

and Minor Scales in thirds, sixths and tenths, and 

Arpeggios. Throughout each grade pieces from 

best composers will be given as required. 

THIRD GRADE Practice two hours per day). A 

comprehensive study of octave playing will be introduced 

with third grade and continued through 

the course; A. D. Turner’s “Elements of Modern 

Octave Playing” will be used; Klaviertechnik, 

Loeschorn; Heller, Opus 45, books 2 and 46; Krause, 

Opus 2, book 1, Trill Studies; Six Short Preludes 

and Two Part Inventions, Bach, Peter’s Edition. 

Practice daily Scales Chords and Arpeggios.


Students will be required to transpose AdoIf Kulak’s 

Finger Exercises into different Major and 

Minor Keys. 

FOURTH GRADE. Practice three hours per day). 

Continue daily technical work; Fifty Selected Studies, 

Cramer, edited by Von Bulo; Three Part Inventions, 

Bach; Damperpedal Studies, Opus 15, A. 

D. Turner. 

Etudes Velocite Opus 299, Czerny; Gradus ad 

Parnassum, Clementi. 

Continue daily practice of Scales, Chords and 

Arpeggios, varied in numerous ways, as legato, 

staccato, slurred, crescendo and diminuendo, etc., 

with double thirds, and dominant and diminished 

seventh Chords with Arpeggios, etc. 

FIFTH 

GRADE.-(Practice four hours per day). 

Faeten’s 3rd and 4th books of Technical Studies; 

Selections from Moscheles, Opus 70; Kullak’s Oc- 

tave Studies; Chopin Etudes, Opus 10 and 25, and 

in following order, viz: No. 2 of op. 10; Nos. 9, 2, 

7, 3, 1, 4 of op. 25; Nos. 5, 3, 7 of op. 10; Bach’s 

Preludes and Fugues; Selections from Bach’s Well- 

tempered Clavichord (Peter’s Czerny 

Continue daily practice of Major and Minor 

Scales in double thirds and sixths, Chords and 

Arpeggios. 

An important feature is semi-monthly recitals, 

in which pupils from every grade will be required 

to take part. The works of some one composer 

will predominate at each recital, and a short sketch


of his life, together with a list of his best compositions 

will be read. 

ENSEMBLE Music One hour each week will be 

devoted by the more advanced pupils to this exercise. 

In this way they become acquainted with 

the works of the old masters. 

VOCAL CULTURE AND VOICE BUILDING. 

ITALIAN METHOD. 

Special attention is paid to the Department of 

Vocal Music, it being our aim to afford the best 

facilities for the cultivation of the voice. Each 

pupil is required to attend the weekly practice in 

praise service. Candidates for graduation must 

have studied both Theory and Harmony for ten 

months, and have a thorough knowledge of the 

best vocal composers. 

COURSE OF STUDY. 

FIRST 

GRADE. Lessons in breathing and pro- 

duction of tone; Development of Registers in 

Panofka’s A, B, C; Abt’s Complete Tutor; Con- 

cone’s Fifty Lessons, Opus 9; Selected Songs. 

SECOND GRADE.-concone’s Exercises, opus II. 

Panofka’s L’Art de Chanter;” Lutgen’s Kehlfertigkeit 

Band 1 and 2; Vaccai’s Italian Method; 

Recitative and Aria Work. 

THIRD GRADE. Panseron’s Selected Studies; 

Castrone Marchesi’s Advanced Studies; Selections


from Mendelsohn’s Elijah and Haydn’s “Crea- 

tion;” Operatic and Classical Songs. 

HARMONY. 

The course of study in Harmony requires three 

years. Clarke’s “Harmony on the Inductive 

Method,” Filmore’s “History of Piano Porte 

Music,” and Matthews’ How to Understand 

Music” are the text books used. 

DEPARTMENT OF ART. 

We have in the College one of the largest and 

best equipped art studios to be found in the South, 

and our course of study is identical with that pre- 

scribed by the best Northern and foreign art 

schools. Drawing is taught from geometric figures, 

casts of ornament and foliage, casts from the an- 

tique, life-masks, and also from the living model. 

The purpose of this school is to furnish the best 

facilities €or those who desire to pursue an ex- 

tended course of practical instruction in the 

several branches of Drawing, Painting, Modeling, 

and their correlated subjects. Special attention is 

given to Composition and Sketching. Indeed, it is 

our purpose greatly to increase the thorough and 

serious study of Art, in the South, and especially in 

North Carolina. 

Miss Catharine F. Heiskell is the instructor in 

this Department. She is a Southern woman who


has had the benefit of study in the best schools 

both in the South and in the North. She has 

studied under the best teachers in New York, 

taking full and finished courses in the best schools 

of art in that city. In addition to this she has had 

an experience of six years in teaching Art, having 

had charge of the Art Department in several col- 

leges of high grade, from which institutions she 

has the highest testimonials. She is spending the 

summer in the Northern cities studying the latest 

and best improved methods in her Department. 

It is one of the impossibilities to accomplish any- 

thing in painting without a knowledge of drawing, 

the foundation for all color work. The coloring of 

a picture may be perfect, but the picture cannot 

be called GOOD if it is in bad drawing. 

For pupils who do not take drawing, and in order 

that they may get some knowledge of it, we will re- 

quire each pupil in the Art Department to take 

time sketches at least once a week, either in black 

and white, or color. This not only enables the 

pupils to work more rapidly and to sketch from 

Nature, but makes them closer observers of Na- 

ture and trains the eye and the hand. 

COURSE IN ART. 

Free hand drawing, pencil and charcoal, object 

drawing and shading from studies. 

Drawing from the Antique, Water Color from 

studies, Still Life in Water Color and Oil, Painting 

from studies, Perspective.


Sketching from Nature in Water Color and Oil, 

Crayon Portraiture, Perspective, Designing and 

Modeling in Clay. 

A certificate of proficiency in the Art Depart- 

ment of this College is given when a pupil has 

completed the entire course, and passed time ex- 

aminations in the following subjects: 

Monochrome and Still Life in Water Color; 

Monochrome and Still Life in Oil; 

Aerial Perspective; 

Head in Charcoal; 

Details of Human Figure; 

An original Design in any Medium. 

DEPARTMENT OF ELOCUTION. 

The Department of Elocution is designed to teach 

Elocution as an art, resting upon absolute laws of 

Nature explained and illustrated by exact rules of 

Science, and to give a thorough and systematic 

training in all the principles upon which this art 

is based. 

Elocution properly studied has, in many in- 

stances, resulted in great physical benefit. What 

we need to-day is, How to live physically how to 

round the five cycles of life into perfection infancy 

fancy, childhood, youth, manhood and womanhood, 

and old age.” We desire, therefore, that our young 

women may be so trained as to develop into healthy, 

enduring, glorious womanhood.


No other instruction within the province of our 

educational system possesses a greater degree of 

practical importance than that of natural. chaste 

and effective speech. It relates to the whole being, 

physical, mental and moral. 

Pupils in this Department have two lessons a 

week and are taken two in a class, which usually 

proves beneficial to beginners. Where special in- 

struction is desired, pupils may arrange for private 

lessons in addition to those in class. 

THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 

This is composed of three branches of study, 

Stenography, Type-writing and Book-keeping. The 

great object of this work is to prepare girls for 

actual business; in other words, to enable them to 

make their own living, should it become necessary. 

The course can be completed in one year, by the 

average pupil. At the close of the year the young 

lady receives a certificate, stating her grade in ac- 

curacy and ability. This is of great benefit to her 

in securing a situation. 

The Munson system of Short-hand is used. This 

is one of the oldest and considered by experts, one 

of the best known in the world. The system of 

Book-keeping is the one used by the Bryant & 

Stratton Business College, of Baltimore. The 

pupils are carried through Double and Single 

Entry, and are thoroughly prepared to keep books, 

by actual practice. 

We had no trouble, the past year, in securing 

positions for all the members of the class who re-


received certificates. In fact, we had more positions 

than applicants. 

Miss Bettie Armfield, who took a special course 

at the Bryant & Stratton Business College, Balti- 

more, Md., a thoroughly competent teacher, is in 

charge, and spares no pains in giving to all our 

pupils excellent instruction. She has had a large 

class, and her pupils have done well. 

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL CULTURE. 

It is our aim in this Department to develop the 

mental and physical powers of the young women 

entrusted to our care by a system of Gymnastics 

especially adapted to this purpose. It has been 

shown by experience that a mild form of Gymnas- 

tics is better suited to develop beauty and symme- 

try of figure and grace of movement than any 

amount of vigorous training. 

Ease of motion accompanied with a perfect de- 

velopment of brain and lung, is attainable only by 

the faithful, persistent practice of a system of dy- 

namic breathing and psycho-physical culture exer- 

cises that have been found, after careful research 

and diligent appreciation, to be the best. 

Each young lady is expected to provide herself 

with a blue flannel empire gown. This is prefer- 

able to the ordinary blouse, as it throws all weight 

upon the shoulders. 

This Department is always in charge of some 

competent person.


GENERAL INFORMATION. 

OUR FACULTY. 

Greensboro Female College employs no tutors in 

any Department of its work. Our lower classes 

have the same advantages, in the matter of highly 

competent teachers, as the higher classes. Our 

policy forbids that a student, in whatever class or 

branch of study, should devote part of her time to 

teaching and the rest to her studies. We deem the 

studies of the lower classes in every branch of col- 

lege work of too great importance to place them in 

the hands of inexperienced students. We are 

forcibly reminded every year that a student needs 

a specialist more at the beginning of her school 

career than at any other period. These considera- 

tions have led us to select our Faculty with great 

cart?. Among them will be found graduates of 

Greensboro Female College, Trinity College, Ward 

Seminary, Nashville College, Martha Washington 

College, Wesleyan Female College, and the New 

England Conservatory. In addition to receiving 

their diplomas, several members of our Faculty 

have had training in graduate schools of universi- 

ties both in this country and in Europe. Every 

teacher in the College is a specialist, and has had 

experience in college work here and elsewhere.


SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION. 

Our course of study is extensive and well arranged. 

The constant aim of the Faculty is to secure 

accurate scholarship and a high standard of 

attainments. We have no stereotyped methods of 

instruction. The plan is dictated by the Individual 

requirements of the pupil. Young ladies are encouraged 

in original thought, which is the secret 

of all distinguished scholarship. We consider the 

object of pursuing a course of study to be not only 

to acquire knowledge, but so to train and develop 

the intellectual powers that the mind may become 

capable of correct, discriminating, vigorous thought. 

The students are first closely questioned on the 

lesson, and then such oral explanations are given 

as are found necessary. Parents are earnestly requested 

to have their daughters well trained in all 

the primary branches of study. Applicants for 

admission, even into advanced classes, are often 

found very deficient in these essential studies. 

Faulty primary work is often fatal to final scholarship, 

and always difficult and expensive in being 

adjusted. 

EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS. 

There are three regular examinations held during 

the scholastic year-Fall, Intermediate and Final- 

beginning the first week in December and March, 

and the third week in May respectively. From


these examinations, combined with the daily record 

of scholarship, a report of the pupil’s standing is 

made. This report, including a general statement 

of deportment and a record of absences from 

Recitations, Church and Sunday School, is for- 

warded every three months to the parent or guar- 

dian. In addition to the above reports we send out 

General Statements on the first Tuesday of every 

month, except December and March. By means 

of these statements and reports, we are able to 

keep all patrons informed as to the conduct and 

diligence of their daughters or wards. The infor- 

mation sent out from the President’s office may be 

relied on absolutely, as we intend neither to flatter 

nor paliate, but to give the truth conscientiously. 

The system of giving high numerical grades, pre- 

valent in many schools and colleges, finds no place 

here, as it fosters habits of loose scholarship, and 

frequently misrepresents the true state of affairs. 

Our policy is to inspire all students to do hard, 

open, honest work for the sake of the results of the 

work, and not for the attainment of high marks 

alone. 

LITERARY SOCIETIES. 

The College has two Literary Societies, known as 

the Irving Literary Society and the Emerson Liter- 

ary Society. Both societies are well organized, and 

have proved very beneficial to the young ladies in 

the promotion of general reading and other literary


accomplishments. These societies are important 

auxiliaries in the cultivation of taste and manners, 

and afford rare facilities for improvement in Elocu- 

tion, Composition and Conversation. 

THE COLLEGE MESSAGE. 

THE COLLEGE MESSAGE is a monthly magazine 

published by the Literary Societies of the College, 

and edited by six young women-members of the 

Senior Class. The object of THE MESSAGE is to 

furnish a medium of communication between the 

members of the College family and all graduates 

and former students of the College. In order to 

place THE MESSAGE within’ the reach of all, the 

Editors have made the subscription price only one 

dollar for the scholastic year. It is hoped that this 

low figure will enable them to secure several hundred 

paid subscribers next year. All communications 

and remittances should be addressed to the 

“Editors of THE MESSAGE, G. F. College, Greensboro, 

N. C.” 

THE ETHEL CARR PEACOCK READING ROOM. 

During the latter part of 1894 this was establish- 

ed and endowed by Mrs. Dred Peacock in memory 

of her little daughter, Ethel Carr Peacock. The


Board of Directors at once furnished and decorated 

at their personal expense a beautiful room. The 

old library formed the nucleus. There are now 

more than 5,000 volumes. Among these are The 

Encyclopaedia Brittannica, The American Cyclo- 

pedia, The Annual Cyclopaedia, History for Ready 

Reference, Johnson‘s Universal Cyclopaedia, Appleton’s 

Cycloyaedia Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Li- 

brary of American Literature, The Encyclopaedic 

Dictionary, The Standard Dictionary, Worcester‘s 

Unabridged, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and 

Musicians, History of Music (Naumann), and many 

other new works on music; Latin, Greek and 

German Lexicons, Anthon’s Classical Dictionary, 

Grote’s Greece, Gibbon’s Rome, Merivale’s Rome, 

Green’s History of English People, Strickland’s 

Lives of Queens of England, Bancroft’s United 

States, Shaler’s United States, Guizot’s France, 

Fisher’s Outline’s, McCarthy’s History of Our Own 

Times, Richardson’s History of English Literature; 

History of French Literature (3 vols.), Plutarch’s 

Lives, Simcox’s History of Latin Literature, The 

Library of American Statesmen, Prescott’s His- 

tories of Mexico, Peru, Ferdinand and Isabella 

Lubke’s History of Art, and other reference works 

of equal value. The Reading Room is also well 

supplied with poetry and fiction. The College, 

being a Government Depository, receives all issues 

of the United States Government Press. A well 

invested endowment of one thousand dollars and 

the exchange department of THE COLLEGE MESAGE


SAGE supply all the necessary periodical literature 

The Methodist Review, Lippincott’s, Century, Cos- 

mopolitan, Harper’s Monthly and Weekly, Review 

of Reviews, Popular Science Monthly, Scientific 

American American Geologist, Germania, Le 

Francais, Music, Werner’s Voice Magazine, Puck, 

New York Independent, New York Daily Herald, 

Daily Charlotte Observer, Daily News and Ob- 

server, thirty secular and twenty religious weekly 

papers, and school journals, constitute the princi- 

pal part. 

The President of the College has made special 

efforts during the past two years to collect all pos- 

sible material relating to the history of North Caro- 

lina. He has gathered together hundreds of pam- 

phlets and had them indexed and bound. We have 

every history of the State that has been published. 

Friends and patrons of the institution are requested 

to send the President any items of North Carolina 

history or biography. We are especially anxious 

to complete our set of The Trinity Archive, The N. 

C. University Magazine, and The Davidson Monthly. 

We want copies of the Journals of the N.C. Confer- 

ence prior to 1872. 

The Reading Room is under the constant super- 

vision of a salaried Librarian, and is open to all 

students of the College, subject to regulations 

made known to all at the proper time. 

A small fee of two dollars per session is charged 

all matriculates, and is payable to the Librarian on 

the registration of the names of students. This


fund does not go into the College Treasury at all, 

but is at once expended for the purchase of books 

for the Reading Room. This small expenditure 

will doubtless prove to be one of the best invest- 

ments made by the student while in College. 

RELIGIOUS ADVANTAGES. 

Rev. J. H. Weaver, D. D., pastor of West Market 

Street Church, Greensboro, N. C., is the College 

Chaplain. He mill meet with the young women at 

Chapel services and prayer-meetings from time to 

time, in addition to his pastoral visits. 

The regular exercises of the school are opened 

with Bible readings, singing and prayer. Weekly 

prayer-meetings are held regularly in the College 

Chapel by the pupils. The young ladies are re- 

quired to attend church once, at least, every Sab- 

bath, and when the weather is inclement religious 

services are conducted in the College Chapel under 

the direction of the President and the resident 

teachers of the Faculty. A Young Ladies’ Mis- 

sionary Society and Young Women’s Christian As- 

sociation are in successful operation, and the Col- 

lege will furnish board and tuition free to one 

young lady preparing for foreign mission work. 

Arrangements have been made for regular, sys- 

tematic study of the English Bible, and the aim of 

the management of the school will be to pervade


the College at all times with a fine religious in- 

fluence. We hope the religious atmosphere will be 

such that no young lady will fail to feel its benign 

influence. 

GOVERNMENT. 

It is the purpose of the management to inspire 

all the young women who come to Greensboro 

Female College with a genuine, earnest, consuming 

desire for a higher moral and intellectual experi- 

ence, and to teach them by precept and example to 

form correct, ideas and notions of life. The mere 

acquisition of knowledge, however varied and ex- 

tensive cannot be called education in the true sense. 

Recognizing this fact, the officers and teachers 

have been selected with reference not only to their 

scholarship, but to their general moral and relig- 

ious culture as well. The government is in charge 

of the President, Lady Principal and lady teachers. 

The students are grouped in sections, and a teacher 

has charge of each section night and day. Our dis- 

cipline is mild, but firm. We do not try to govern 

the pupils by a set of intricate regulations, nor to 

make mere machines of them by a strict adherence 

to formulae and rules. We start out with a few 

leading principles of behavior and morals, and 

strive to develop a true sense of personal responsibility 

in all students. They are recognized as moral 

beings and trusted as persons of honor and char-


character and not as mere children to be watched by 

spies and reported by tale-bearers. As soon as 

we discover that a young woman cannot bear treat- 

ment of this kind-such discoveries are very rare 

-her parents are notified that she needs a change 

of environment, as we cannot keep disturbing ele- 

ments in our college family. While this general 

principle governs us in regard to our treatment of 

the students, the fact is recognized that numerous 

restraints must be thrown around the young for 

their protection as well as our own. For this reason 

persons of experience always look after the inter- 

ests and conduct of our students, and are ever in 

place to make suggestions for improvements in all 

the lines of life. 

We aim at the highest moral, mental and physi- 

cal culture, that our pupils may be properly fitted 

for their legitimate sphere as educated Christian 

women. To this end the President embraces every 

opportunity for counsel, encouragement or reproof, 

and endeavors constantly to surround the inmates 

of the college with the atmosphere of a cheerful, 

well regulated family. 

The Lady Principal and the teachers residing in 

the college take special interest t in the welfare of 

the pupils, and assist in the government of the 

school by co-operating with the President in his 

efforts to secure the observance of rules of order 

and attention to study. They also accompany the 

pupils in walking for recreation, and occasionally 

to the stores. Indeed all the teachers and officers


are expected to devote themselves faithfully to the 

interests of the Institution, and to give its laws 

and administration a cordial support. 

DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 

This Department is under the personal super- 

vision of the Matron, assisted by a good house- 

keeper and an intelligent and experienced lady to 

attend to the sick. 

All the sanitary arrangements of the building 

are so made as to promote the health and comfort 

of the pupils. The table is constantly supplied with 

the best quality of food wholesome, well cooked 

and in abundance. Every attention necessary to 

the welfare of the school is given. 

When boarders enter College they are received 

as members of our own family, and guarded with 

parental care from all evil influences. The young 

ladies are required to keep their rooms neat and in 

good order. 

Hours of study, rest and recreation are arranged 

with reference to their physical as well as intellec- 

tual development. A portion of each day is set 

apart for invigorating outdoor exercise. When 

well, their health is guarded with constant care, 

and in sickness they receive the utmost kindness 

and attention.


CARE OF THE SICK. 

Miss Fannie Armfield (“Aunt Fannie,” as she is 

affectionately called by the girls) is our supervisor 

of health, and has charge of our Infirmary, which 

is well fitted up and properly arranged and venti- 

lated. She gives all her time to looking after the 

health of the young ladies, which she does with a 

mother’s care and watchfulness. If any of the 

young ladies are the least indisposed she takes 

them in charge, and often. by a little wise care, 

prevents protracted sickness. We confidently as- 

sert that no college can show a better health record. 

Careful attention and close oversight have secured 

this and we expect to keep up the standard. If 

any of the young ladies should become sick the 

very best medical attention will be called in, and 

their parents will be promptly notified of their con- 

dition every day. A small fee of fifty cents a day 

is charged for each day a young lady is in the In- 

firmary. This is for the attention of a trained 

nurse and special care, which is so necessary to 

the sick. Medicines are furnished and charged at 

regular retail prices. 

VISITING AND CORRESPONDING. 

Young ladies will not be allowed to spend a night 

out of the College with friends in the city. They 

will not be allowed to go on the streets, or to any


public meetings or gatherings. except when ac- 

companied by a, teacher or parent. Young gentle- 

men wishing to call on the young ladies of the Col- 

lege must present written permission from their 

parents or guardians. No calls must be made 

during school hours. No visiting allowed on the 

Sabbath. The President reserves the right to use 

his discretion in the whole matter of visiting, and 

it is earnestly requested that parents and guar- 

dians will not give permission to their children or 

wards to see visitors at such times as are forbidden. 

The correspondence of the young ladies will be 

under the direction of the President. No corre- 

spondence with young gentlemen will be allowed 

except by permission of parent or guardian. All 

letters should be directed to the care of G. B. Col- 

lege, Greensboro, N. C. 

WEARING APPAREL. 

While we do not require any prescribed uniform 

in dress, we do earnestly request our patrons to 

furnish their daughters only plain, neat, inexpen- 

sive wearing apparel. We make this request to 

avoid all extravagance in dress, so as to reduce 

school expenses to a minimum, and to prevent un- 

pleasant distinctions and rivalry in dress. Each 

young lady must be furnished with a Calisthenic 

suit.


Each young lady coming to school should be pro- 

vided with an umbrella, a pair of overshoes and a 

water- proof cloak, and have her name distinctly 

marked on every article of clothing 

POCKET MONEY AND BOXES. 

Parents are requested not to give their daughters 

much pocket-money. They can do much better 

work without it. Often not much studying can be 

done until it is spent. In no case will we be responsi- 

ble for money not deposited with the Assistant Treasurer. 

Parents are requested not to send their daughters boxes 

of food. They are positively injurious to them. Candy 

and fruits, occasionally sent to them, are not so ob- 

jectionable, but they do not really need anything of 

this kind, and are the better for not having them. 

POSITIONS FOR OUR PUPILS. 

We often have applications for teachers who were 

educated at Greensboro Female College. Principals 

of schools frequently write us asking us to recom- 

mend to them some of our former pupils for assist- 

ant teachers. It is our rule to keep a list of all the 

young ladies who desire positions. We prepare 

them especially to teach and then we recommend 

them to parties wanting teachers. In this way we 

help many of our pupils to pleasant and lucrative 

employment. Many of the young ladies who have


recently graduated in our Business Department, 

in the Literary Department and in the Department 

of Music and Art, are now filling good positions 

in various parts of the country. A graduate of 

Greensboro Female College generally finds but lit- 

tle difficulty in securing a good position. In this 

assistance is gladly given. 

CHARGES FOR BOARD AND TUITION. 

In order to place the advantages of the school 

within the reach of a large number of persons, the 

Directors have fixed the charges for board and 

tuition at the lowest possible figures compatible 

with financial safety, and the superior educational 

facilities and physical comforts offered. No margin 

has been left for deduction or losses. 

PER SESSION, OR HALF-YEAR. 

TO BE PAID BY ALL STUDENTS. 

Board, Washing, Lights, Fuel and Library Fee.. $67.00 

TUITION FEES-TO BE PAID IN ADDITION TO 

ABOVE CHARGES. 

Full English Course.. $25.00 

Ancient and Modern Languages, each. 

10.00 

Music-Piano or Voice, each, from Director (by request) 

30.00 

Music-Piano or Voice, from Assistant.. 25.00 

Harmony 10.00 

Use of Piano (one practice hour)". 2.50 

Sheet Music-Rental.. 2.50 to 4.00


Drawing.. $20.00 

Oil Painting 20.00 

Elocution-Special Lessons. 10.00 

Type-writing and Stenography, each.. 12.50 

Use of Type-writer.. 2.50 

Book-keeping 10.00 

Laboratory Fee. For Students in Chemistry and 

Physics 2.50 

+For two practice hours, $4; three, $6; and so on 

No charge is made for English Tuition to daugh- 

ters of ministers engaged in regular pastoral work. 

The $2 fee included in the $67 above is payable 

to the Librarian, and does not go into the College 

Treasury. 

Parents or guardians are earnestly requested to 

study the above schedule of prices carefully, and 

to select the studies they wish their daughters or 

wards to pursue. They can then see what the ex- 

penses per session will be. 

Students are charged only for the studies they 

actually take, but no charge for a study will be 

made for less time than one month, under any cir- 

cumstances, nor for less than one session, except 

to those who enter after two weeks from the open- 

ing of the Fall or Spring Session, and to those who 

are compelled to leave for afflictive providential 

reasons. 

We offer special rates to two or more from the 

same family. 

We require fifty dollars from every pupil on 

entrance, fifty dollars at the middle of each session,


and the remainder of her bill at the end of the 

session. 

Books, stationery and art materials are kept on 

sale at the College, and are furnished the young 

ladies at very low rates. The bills for these sup- 

plies are payable on presentation to parents or 

guardians. It is well to deposit a small amount, 

say about $5, with the College for these supplies at 

the beginning of each session. 

Boarding pupils will not be allowed to open 

accounts in the city. Purchases can be made only 

under direction of the officers of the College. 

Parents or guardians are requested to deposit 

with the Assistant Treasurer all funds for contin- 

gent expenses, otherwise the officers of the institu- 

tion will not be held responsible for any loss that 

may occur. 

Young ladies are not permitted to make expen- 

sive presents, or to purchase costly articles of 

jewelry. 

All express packages should be prepaid. 

Each boarding pupil is required to furnish one 

pair of sheets, one pair of pillow-cases, one white 

counterpane, her towels and table napkins. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. 

If any one desires any further information in 

reference to the College which is not found in this 

catalogue, the President of the College will be glad 

to give it. He will be glad to correspond with


parents in reference to the best plans for preparing 

their daughters for College. He will be glad to 

hear from young ladies who desire to secure a col- 

legiate education. He will take pleasure in answer- 

ing any inquiries made, and will be glad to corre- 

spond fully with any one desiring to enter College. 

Address all letters to him as follows: Dred Peacock 

cock, President G. F. College, Greensboro, N. C. 

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. 

The College building is heated by steam and 

lighted by electricity, and is connected with the 

water-works. The building is large, commodious 

and well adapted to school purposes, containing a 

spacious chapel, dining hall, study hall, society 

halls, art studio, reading room, besides lecture, 

recitation and music rooms, parlors and dormito- 

ries for 125 boarders. The sleeping rooms are 

large, well ventilated and nicely furnished. The 

recitation rooms are provided with all necessary 

apparatus, and everything is arranged so as to be 

conducive to studious habits and good health. 

Many people who have visited and gone over the 

building have expressed surprise to find the in- 

terior so commodious and so admirably adapted to 

school purposes. A view of the exterior of the 

building does not give a correct impression of the 

fine arrangement of the interior.


The corridors are large, and in winter are heated 

by steam and kept at about seventy degrees, so 

that the young ladies going from warm rooms are 

not liable to take cold. The stairways are very 

wide, wisely located and easy of ascent and descent. 

There are spacious exits in the front, in the rear 

and in the center of the building on each story, so 

that it would be very easy to empty the building in 

a minute or two in case of accident of any kind. 

The pitch of each story is high-that of the third 

Boor being fourteen feet, thus making the building 

very pleasant indeed. The young ladies are grouped 

in rooms on each story around the rooms of the 

teachers, and the teachers are required to look 

carefully after them at all hours of the day and 

night. Everything is arranged and located with a 

view to convenience, health, study and comfort. 

The building is made of brick and covered with 

tin. It stands on the top of a beautiful hill and the 

drainage is good, running off in every direction 

from the College. Nature seems to have designed 

the location for a female college. The College build- 

ing is situated in the center of a lovely grove of 

about forty acres, which is enclosed and affords a 

fine campus for exercise and recreation. In this 

grove the young ladies play lawn tennis, croquet 

and other pleasant games. They are required to 

spend a part of each afternoon in outdoor exercise 

of some sort.


LOCATION. 

The Piedmont section of the State of North Caro- 

lina enjoys, in the most lavish degree, a salubrious 

and healthful climate. Greensboro is right in the 

center of it. It is free from the severity of cold in 

minter, and is particularly delightful in summer. 

Its healthfulness is unquestioned. In this pleasant, 

thriving, busy city of about, 12,000 inhabitants, in 

the center of forty acres of beautiful and spacious 

grounds on West Market street, stands the impos- 

ing structure of Greensboro Female College. It 

has ample accommodations for one hundred and 

twenty-five boarding pupils. 

As will be seen from the following map, Greens- 

boro is a railroad center. It is easily accessible 

from all sections. On the eight railroads and their 

branches reaching Greensboro, twenty-nine pas- 

senger trains arrive and depart daily. It is the 

point of junction of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val- 

ley Railway, the North Carolina Railroad, the Pied- 

mont (or Southern) Railroad, and the Northwestern 

North Carolina, which with their branches, lead 

south and southeast to Wilmington, Fayetteville, 

Bennettsville and Charleston; north to Danville, 

RWashington and beyond; east to Raleigh, 

Goldsboro, Newbern and Morehead City; southwest 

to Salisbury, Charlotte, Atlanta, Columbia, Asheville 

and Knoxville; west to Winston-Salem, Wilkesboro 

and, in the near future, to Bristol, Tennessee; 

and northwest to Mt. Airy, Madison, and to Roanoke

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF 

GREENSBORO N.C. 

WITH RAILROAD CONNECTIONS 

AND DISTANCES..


Roanoke Virginia, and other points on the Norfolk and 

Western Railroad, and thence to Cincinnati, Chi- 

cago, and the great Northwestern cities. 

Greensboro is noted for intelligence, refinement 

and morality, and is blessed with a climate mild 

and salubrious. The beauty, healthfulness and 

accessibility of the situation, the solid financial basis 

of its material prosperity, its high grade, the sound 

and elevated intellectual and moral tone of its sur- 

roundings, insure a concentration upon this school 

of learning, of intellectual and material resources 

and appliances for the higher education of woman, 

which cannot be paralleled by any other community 

in this country. It is the best location in the State 

at which to build up a great female college.

1848 6 

1849 6 

1850 14 

1851 19 

1852 7 

1853 12 

1854 9 

1855 8 

1856 17 

1874 8 

1875 5 

1876 13 

1877 12 

1878 10 

1879 14 

1880 9 

1881 9 

1882 12 

1883 24 

1884 13 

1885 19 

1886 17 

1887 22 

1857 11 

1858 12 

1859 15 

1860 16 

1861 21 

1862 8 

1863 10 

Total 191 

1888 32 

1889 10 

1890 22 

1891 29 

1892 42 

1893 23 

1894 20 

1895 25 

1896 27 

1897 11 

1898 8 

Total 678


ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 

The Association was organized for the purpose of 

improving the social advantages incident to an an- 

nual gathering of hundreds of former school-mates 

and friends, and in order that the strength of a 

thorough organization might become available for 

the promotion of the general interests of the insti- 

tution. 

The Association has for some years been trying 

to raise the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) 

to be known as The Lucy McGee Fund,” in loving 

memory of Lucy McGee Jones, wife of Dr. Turner 

M. Jones, who for thirty-six years was theefficient 

President of Greensboro Female College. The ob- 

ject for which the fund is intended is that it may 

be a permanent endowment for the use of needy 

students. The annual income of one hundred and 

eighty dollars ($180) is to be divided into three 

scholarships of sixty dollars ($60) each and to be 

loaned to worthy students of limited means. The 

Committee has in hand more than two thousand 

dollars ($2,000), the income from which has been 

aiding students for several years past. The Asso- 

ciation is very anxious to complete this fund, and 

will be glad to receive contributions at any time.


OFFICERS OF ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION. 

PRESIDENT-MRS. LUCY A. CUNINGGIM, Greensboro. 

N. C. 

1ST VICE-PRES. MISS LILLIAN LONG, Greensboro, N. C. 

2ND VICE-PRES. MRS. L. W. CRAWFORD, Greensboro, 

N. C. 

3RD VICE-PRES. MRS. W. W. SHAW, Durham, N.C. 

RECORDING SEC. MISS NANNIE LEE SMITH, Greensboro, 

N.C. 

TREASURER-MRS. E. L. SIDES, Greensboro, N. C. 

The Association holds its annual meeting at the 

College on the last Tuesday in May. 

COMMITTEE ON LUCY McGEE FUND. 

Mrs. G. W. Whitsett, Greensboro, N. C. 

Mrs. C. H. Ireland, Greensboro, N. C. 

Mrs. R. R. Cotten, Falkland, N. C. 

Mrs. E. L. Sides, Treasurer, Greensboro, N. C. 

Contributions to the Lucy McGee Fund may be 

sent to the Treasurer, Mrs. E. L. Sides, Greens- 

boro, N. C., who is authorized by the Association 

to receipt for same. 

LUCY McGEE FUND SCHOLARSHIPS. 

The Committee now has on hand funds to yield 

an annual income sufficient for two scholarships. 

These scholarships amount to $60.00 each, and are


loaned to worthy students on the following conditions 

1. Applicants must be accepted by executive 

officers of the Association. 

2. The scholarships will not be granted to the 

same beneficiary longer than for two years. 

3. Other things being equal preference shall in 

all cases be given to daughters of alumna: or former 

students of Greensboro Female College. 

4. Any one desiring to obtain the loan of one of 

these scholarships must send a letter of recommendation 

from her pastor as to her general character. 

and a testimonial from her last teacher setting 

forth her mental attainments and habits as a 

student. The application containing these letters 

should be addressed to Mrs. Lucy A. Cuninggim, 

Greensboro, N. C. 

NOTE.-The officers named in the foregoing lists were 

elected in May, 1897, to serve during 1897-98. This cata- 

logue went to press before the Alumnae Association held its 

meeting to elect officers for the coming school-year, 1898-99.


GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE. 

HISTORICAL SKETCH. 

For several years before any direct efforts were 

made to establish a female college of high grade by 

the Methodists in North Carolina, the necessity of 

such an institution was felt by prominent ministers 

and intelligent laymen of the church. It was the 

subject of frequent discussion in annual confer- 

ences. 

In the year 1837. the trustees of Greensboro Fe- 

male School sent a petition on this subject to the 

Virginia Conference, which met in Petersburg, 

January 31st. At this time the North Carolina 

Conference began its separate existence. That 

petition was referred to a committee consisting of 

Rev. Moses Brock, Rev. Peter Doub and Rev. 

Samuel S. Bryant. 

After setting forth the necessity of a female 

school of high grade for the education of women, 

under the auspices of the North Carolina Annual 

Conference, the committee reported the following 

resolutions, which were adopted 

Resolved, 1. That the Conference will co-operate with the 

trustees of Greensboro Female School, provided that one- 

half the number of the board of trustees shall, at all times, 

be members of the North Carolina Conference.


Resolved, 2. That the board thus constituted shall petition 

the Legislature of North Carolina for a proper charter 

for a seminary of learning, to be called the Greensboro 

Female College. 

Resolved, 3. That the Conference appoint Moses Brock, 

Hezekiah G. Leigh, William Compton, Peter Doub, John 

Hank, James Reid, Bennett T. Blake, William E. Pell and 

Samuel S. Bryant, trustees, to carry into effect the object 

contemplated by the previous resolutions. 

Resolved, 4. That the Bishop be requested to appoint an 

agent for the purpose of raising funds for this object. 

MOSES BROCK, Chairman. 

In accordance with the foregoing resolutions, the 

ten ministers named in the third resolution, and 

ten laymen, constituting the board of trustees, se- 

cured from the Legislature a charter granting the 

rights and privileges usually bestowed upon col- 

leges of high grade. This charter was ratified De- 

cember 28th, 1838. (T. M. Jones, in Centennial of 

Methodism in North Carolina). 

On account of the severe depression in all lines 

of business, it required several years of canvassing 

to raise sufficient funds to erect the building. For 

the accomplishment of this difficult task we are in- 

debted to the untiring efforts of s. s. Bryant, 

Moses Brock, James Reid and Ira T. Wyche, who 

were agents for the College in those trying years. 

The corner-stone was laid in September, 1843. In 

1846 the building was completed and ready for 

occupancy, but the trustees did not select a Faculty 

until the following year.


In the fall of that year the classes were organized 

and went to work under the administration of Rev. 

Solomon Lea, who had the honor of having been 

the first president of the first chartered female 

college in North Carolina, and the second one south 

of the Potomac river. 

Mr. Lea resigned in 1847, and was succeeded in 

the Presidency by Rev. A. M. Shipp, D. D., of 

South Carolina. For three years the College pros- 

pered under his wise administration, and twenty- 

six young women were graduated from the institution 

Rev. Charles F. Deems, D. D., who succeeded 

Dr. Shipp in 1850, grasped the situation and mas- 

tered it at once, and the patronage of the College 

was largely increased. It continued to flourish to 

the close of his administration in 1854. At that 

time Rev. Turner Myrick Jones, afterwards Rev. 

T. M. Jones, D. D., was a professor in the College. 

The board of trustees recognized in him the quali- 

fications needed in a man to render him suited for 

great enterprises. Fortunately for the College, he 

was elected President and held that position until 

his greatly lamented death in 1890. For thirty-six 

years Dr. Jones labored for the cause of female 

education as no other man in North Carolina ever 

labored. His valuable life was given to this work. 

While he was President, in 1863, the College building 

was destroyed by fire in the midst of its greatest 

prosperity. The Conference at once formulated 

plans to rebuild. In 1871 work on the present


building was begun, and on the 27th day of August, 

1873, the College was re-opened in the present com- 

modious building. 

Dr. B. F. Dixon was elected to succeed Dr. Jones. 

For three years the College enjoyed an unusually 

large patronage, and ninety-three young ladies 

were graduated during Dr. Dixon’s administration. 

In April, 1893, Dr. Dixon resigned, and the board 

of directors elected Rev. Frank L. Reid, D. D., 

President of the Faculty. Dr. Reid came to the 

College in the prime of life, and his first year’s 

work proved the wisdom of his election. The Fall 

Session of 1894 opened with most favorable pros- 

pects, but the honored President was not destined 

to see the fruition of his labors. On September 

the 24th, 1894, this gifted scholar and preacher was 

called from earth to heaven, and left the College 

family in deep mourning for its beloved head. 

Dred Peacock, at that time a professor in the Col- 

lege, was elected to succeed Dr. Reid, and is now 

the President of the Faculty. 

Under the present administration the different 

Departments have been thoroughly re-organized. 

The courses of study have been expanded and en- 

larged. This was rendered possible only by the 

addition of more appliances in the form of labora- 

tories equipped with ample chemical and philo- 

sophical apparatus, mathematical instruments and 

figures, and new pianos. A well selected library, 

containing more than 5,000 volumes, besides pam- 

phlets and general magazine and periodical literature


literature has enabled the student-body to do a grade 

of work unattainable in the average college for 

young women. The past four years have been un- 

usually successful, both as regards numbers in 

attendance and the highly satisfactory quality of 

work accomplished. 

A very large debt was incurred in erecting the 

present building, which the Conference tried for 

years to pay. Having failed to do this, the College 

was finally put up and sold at public auction for 

debt. At this juncture a syndicate of large-hearted, 

liberal men was formed to purchase it in order that 

it might be continued as a female college for the 

Methodist Church in North Carolina. These gen- 

tlemen still own and control the College. They 

have no desire or expectation of making any money 

out of the investment. Their expectations and 

highest desire will be met when the College is filled 

with pupils; and they stand ready to enlarge the 

buildings and make other improvements whenever 

the patronage of the College demands it. They 

offer first-class facilities for female education at 

what it costs to provide it, and all they ask is that 

large patronage of which the College is so eminently 

worthy.

INDEX 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

List of Directors 4 

CALENDAR 

Calendar of Days 3 

College Calendar 2 

COURSE OF STUDY 

English Language and Literature 23-25 

French 32-33 

German 33-34 

Mathematics 

Philosophy 

Science 

EXECUTlVE COMMITTEE 

30-31 

List of Committee 4 


List of Faculty and Officers for 1897-98 5-6 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

Alumnae 66 

Alumnae Association 67 

Care of the Sick 55 

Charges 

Description of Building 61-62 

Domestic Department 54 

Examinations and Reports 46-47 

Faculty 45 

70-74 

Literary Societies 47-48 

Location 63-65 

Lucy McGee Fund 68-69 

The College Message 48

GENERAL INFORMATION CONTINUED 

Pocket Money and Boxes 57 

Positions for our Pupils., 57-58 

Reading Room 48-51 

Religious Advantages 51-52 

Scholarships 68-69 

System of Instruction 46 

Visiting and Corresponding 55-56 

Wearing Apparel 56-57 

LITERARY DEPARTMENT 

Classification 21 

General Requirements 19-20 

Requirements for Entrance 20 

Requirements for Graduation 21-22 

Schedule of hours per week required 22 

OPTIONAL STUDIES 

Art 40-42 

Business Course 43-44 

Elocution 42-43 

Music 35-40 

PHYSICAL CULTURE 

General Statement 44 

STUDENTS CLASSIFIED 

Art 16-17 

Business Course 17-18 

Elocution 15-16 

French 13 

Harmony 15 

Latin 12-13 

Music 13-15 

STUDENTS ENROLLED 

Graduate Students 7 

Undergraduates 7-10 

Special Students 10-11

CATALOGUE 

Greensboro Female College, 

GREENSBORO, N. C. 

SUPPLEMENT, 

1898.



FOR THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR 1898-99. 

DRED PEACOCK, 

President. 

MRS. Z. A. LONG, 

Lady Principal. 

REV. T. A. SMOOT A. B., 

Science and Philosophy 

MISS LILLIAN LONG, 

History. 

MRS. N. F. SHELTON, 

English Language and Literature. 

MISS MINNIE H. MOORE, 

Mathematics. 

MISS ANNIE M. PAGE, 

French and German. 

MISS AVA L. FLEMING, 

Latin. 

J. W. PARKER, MUSICAL DIRECTOR, 

Piano and Voice Culture. 

MISS MARY O. BLACK, 

Piano and Voice Culture.


FACULTY AND OFFICERS Continued 

MISS ANNE M. SNEED. 

Piano. 

MISS RACHEL SIMS, 

Elocution and Physical Culture. 

MISS CATHARINE F. HEISKELL. 

Drawing and Painting. 

MISS BETTIE ARMFIELD, 

Business Department 

REV. J. H. WEAVER, D. D., 

Chaplain. 

MISS MANIE CATHARINE CURRIE, 

Librarian. 

MISS FANNIE ARMFIELD, 

Supervisor of Health. 

MRS. C. E. HUNDLEY, 

Matron. 

MR. J. A. ODELL, 

Treasurer. 

MISS MAIE ALICE CARR, 

Assistant Treasurer and Private Secretary to the President.

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